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Re:Against SQL by ebingdom on Saturday July 10, 2021 @05:31AM (#27792245)
The author uses the term "union", but unfortunately they picked the one wrong term against a long list of correct alternatives: sum type, tagged union, discriminated union, coproduct, disjoint union, variant, algebraic data type, ...

"Union" does not imply disjointness (which is the source of many problems), whereas all those other terms do.

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Re:Against SQL by valenterry on Saturday July 10, 2021 @07:37AM (#27792684)
Correct, I just continued to use the term of OP. Sum types r coproducts are what I mean.
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Re:Against SQL by ebingdom on Saturday July 10, 2021 @08:52AM (#27793035)
By the "author", I meant the author of the article. I figured you were just being consistent with them.
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